From Biology to Sociopolitics: Conceptual Continuity in Complex Systems

Yale University Press (1998)
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This text explores how we understand living and other complex systems. The conventional basis of understanding rests on abstract general theories, but this book proposes conceptual continuity as a new means of comparing systems of divergent complexity and resolving problems in complex systems.

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